CUBAN REFUGEE TO SPEAK AT YORK COLLEGE
Posted February 8, 2006
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
YORK, Pa. – Carlos Eire, a Cuban refugee and
New York Times bestselling author, will speak on the campus of
York College, Thursday, Feb. 23, at
7 p.m., in the MAC Recital Hall. The presentation, free and open to the public, will be followed by a book signing.
Eire, a 2003 winner of the National Book Award, depicts a heartbreaking childhood tale during the Cuban revolution in his memoir “Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy.” Eire was brought to the United States as part of the largest children’s exodus in the history of the Americas, the Pedro Pan airlift.
After arriving in the United States, Eire, the son of a wealthy Havana judge, lived in a series of foster homes in Florida and Illinois. Although his father never made it to America, his mother eventually met him in Chicago. Eire, determined to get an education, was forced to work full-time during high school and college. In 1979 he earned his doctorate from Yale University.
Eire, a historian of late medieval and early modern Europe, is the T. Lawrason Rigs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University. He is also the author of many scholarly books that include War Against the Idols, From Madrid to Purgatory and Reformations: Early Modern Europe: 1450-1700.
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